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While it was encouraging to see that on Jan. 9 the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) unveiled its long-awaited China policy, it was disappointing to learn that former presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) has expressed strong reservations and is still pushing his own policy line.
The DPP's China policy was the fruit of a lengthy consultation process, in which the party's China Affairs Commission convened nine meetings at which about 630 participants — party officials, civic groups, academics and experts — presented their views and insights.
As expected, the party left its 1999 Party Resolution on Taiwan's Future unchanged. This states that Taiwan is already an independent country, and that any change in the country's "status quo" can only be made by the people of Taiwan by means of a plebiscite.
The document states that cross-strait interaction is to be welcomed, but emphasizes that it needs to be done in a transparent fashion, that it must not undermine Taiwan's sovereignty and security and that it needs to encompass promotion of freedom, democracy and human rights.
The policy document also outlines a strategy for improving Taiwan's economic and industrial development, building on the country's technological strengths. It decries the erosion of the economy and imbalances introduced by the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) overreliance on economic ties with China, and argues for a more balanced development of external trade relations through membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The document also highlights that Taiwan's free and open society is being threatened by what it refers to as the "China Factor": Through its economic power, China has begun to "permeate Taiwanese society and gradually reshaped the free and open way of life that the people of Taiwan have enjoyed, subtly but tangibly restricting the range of political choice for Taiwanese voters."
Last but not least, the document outlines a more balanced national security strategy, which enhances the nation's international status and bolsters its national defense capabilities through "values diplomacy" (combining the universal values of freedom, democracy and human rights with Taiwan's accumulated experiences in good governance) and the buildup of asymmetric capabilities in its defense against China's military aggression.
Former US National Security Council director Michael Green said that it is a comprehensive and reasonable approach that reflects that a lot of thinking has gone into it. He added that it represents a careful calibration that reflects sensitivity to US interests and concerns.
The reactions from the KMT and China were predictable. Newspapers associated with the KMT, still clinging to the anachronistic "Republic of China" concept dating back to former president Chiang Kai-shek's (蔣介石) heyday in China, criticized the report as "inflexible."
Beijing also had the usual knee-jerk reaction: The State Council Taiwan Affairs Office accused the DPP of having a "rigid mindset." Of course Beijing will only be satisfied if the DPP discards Taiwan's hard-won freedom and democracy.
However, the most silly reaction came from within the DPP itself: Hsieh said that the report had been a failure and that if the DPP wants to win the 2016 presidential election, it must make changes in its China policy.
If Hsieh has the DPP's interests in mind, he needs to be a better team player. He also needs to realize that Taiwan cannot retain its freedom and democracy if it sells its principles and values down the river.
Mei-chin Chen is a commentator based in Washington.
With a new White House document in May — the "Strategic Approach to the People's Republic of China" — the administration of US President Donald Trump has firmly set its hyper-competitive line to tackle geoeconomic and geostrategic rivalry, followed by several reinforcing speeches by Trump and other Cabinet-level officials. By identifying China as a near-equal rival, the strategy resonates well with the bipartisan consensus on China in today's severely divided US. In the face of China's rapidly growing aggression, the move is long overdue, yet relevant for the maintenance of the international "status quo." The strategy seems to herald a new
To say that this year has been eventful for China and the rest of the world would be something of an understatement. First, the US-China trade dispute, already simmering for two years, reached a boiling point as Washington tightened the noose around China's economy. Second, China unleashed the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, wreaking havoc on an unimaginable scale and turning the People's Republic of China into a common target of international scorn. Faced with a mounting crisis at home, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) rashly decided to ratchet up military tensions with neighboring countries in a misguided attempt to divert the
Toward the end of former president Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) final term in office, there was much talk about his legacy. Ma himself would likely prefer history books to enshrine his achievements in reducing cross-strait tensions. He might see his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Singapore in 2015 as the high point. However, given his statements in the past few months, he might be remembered more for contributing to the breakup of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). We are still talking about Ma and his legacy because it is inextricably tied to the so-called "1992 consensus" as the bedrock of his
Retired army major general Yu Pei-chen (于北辰), a former head the Taoyuan chapter of the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) veterans branch, on Wednesday last week said that chapter head Tsang You-hsia (臧幼俠) — who dismissed Yu from his position — "would rather see cross-strait unification than yield to the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] government." The statement ignited public debate, as it was the first time that a retired officer loyal to the nation — and the KMT — said out loud what has long been rumored among the public: Some KMT members would rather work with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)


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New Wearable Tech Debuts at 'Launch' Conference
The debut of wearable tech like Google Glass and Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch have opened the invention doors to more apps and gadgets for us all to try on. The WSJ's Monika Vosough highlights a few at this year's Launch conference in San Francisco.
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Social Media Stock Tracker: LinkedIn Crushes Earnings Estimates
The social media sector was up 2% this week as LNKD's Q4/12 results dominated with strong numbers across all of its business segments, driving the stock up 21% on the week. YELP also performed well after an initial lukewarm reaction to its Q4/12 numbers, but ZNGA led the sector in weekly performance with a gain of 28%, mainly on stronger-than-expected financial results and perhaps the speculation of potential online gambling opportunities in New Jersey (we remain cautious on ZNGA due to its disastrous previous two quarters).
Social Media Stock Tracker: Lukewarm Reaction to Facebook Results
The social media sector was flat this week as FB's Q4 results failed to impress investors who expected dramatic gains in mobile revenue (see commentary below) and YHOO also failed to excite with its earnings and 2013 outlook. However, for the calendar year of 2013, the social media sector is still up 8% and next week we will see notable earnings from ZNGA, YELP, and LNKD. ANGI led in weekly performance with a gain of 8%, mainly from a new payments partnership with Square and an upgrade from analysts ahead of its earnings in two weeks.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Google and Netflix Delight Investors
The social media sector performed well this week with an average weekly gain of 2% as GOOG's Q4/12 earnings drove the company up 7%, showing marginal CPC improvement, which have been under pressure in the last year due to the continued user shift from desktop to mobile (see Commentary). Pandora's stock also rebounded strongly, though this was not based on any fundamental news, but rather it is likely on speculation of improved mobile ad performance flimsily based on GOOG's results.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Facebook's Graph Search Underwhelms, Drags Sector Down
The social media sector took a hit this week with an average weekly loss of 3% as FB's announcement of a new graph search failed to excite investors, sending the stock down 7% (though it is still up 11% in the three weeks of trading of 2013). Despite the negative week, the average return for the social media sector in 2013 is a gain of 5%. EBAY announced solid Q4 results (see below) and next week we will see notable earnings from GOOG, NFLX, and most importantly, AAPL, which has cast a cloud over the entire Internet and media sector during the past six weeks.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Investors Bet on Upcoming Q4 Results
The social media sector performed well this week with an average weekly gain of 2% as investors continued to make bets ahead of upcoming earnings. In the next several weeks, several notable companies (including EBAY, GOOG, AAPL, NFLX, YHOO, and FB) will report Q4/12 earnings and set the tone for investor sentiment on the social media and Internet sectors over the next several months.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Facebook Raises Its Voice, Stocks Follow
The social media sector has roared so far in 2013 with an average gain of 6% this week as institutional interest intensified. P and WEBM (the parent company of SocialTimes) led the group with gains of 16% and 15%, respectively, although these moves were not news driven. FB had an impressive gain of 11% largely as a result of the new buoyant outlook from several research analysts on opportunities in mobile and Gifts for 2013. The company was also able to capitalize on a somewhat quiet week of news for the rest of the sector by rolling out voice messages capability in Facebook Messages and by launching the test of a new free VOIP service in Canada.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Uneven Performances in 2012
In a quiet holiday week heading towards 2013, there was little meaningful news and accordingly, the social media sector was down a percent. WEBM, the parent company of SocialTimes, led the week with a 3% gain, but the performance of most stocks was somewhat driven by year-end trading on tax considerations. For 2012, the five pure play social stocks with the most visibility (FB, GOOG, LNKD, YELP, and ZNGA) showed uneven performance for the year, with a combined average gain of 1%, despite significant volatility and variance (see below for more details).
Social Media Stock Tracker: Gains for Angie's List | Instagram's SNAFU
The social media sector was up an average of 2% this week and is heading towards 2013 with an average gain of 13% in 2012, despite incredible volatility along the way. While recent negative sentiment on AAPL shares continued to overshadow the sector, ANGI led the week with a 12% gain, mainly as a result of increased positive equity research coverage.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Facebook, Google, Yelp on the Rebound
The social media sector was up an average of 4% this week as it rebounded from last week's negative performance. There were no real fundamental drivers to value that standout, but it is notable that continued downward pressure on AAPL shares (perhaps unfounded) did not drag the sector down. Also of interest is that WEBM (the parent company of Social Times) rebounded strongly with a 15% gain on the week.
Social Media Stock Tracker: Negative Pressure from Pandora
The social media sector was down an average of 4% this week as it was negatively impacted by Pandora's Q3 report (as detailed below) and Q4 concerns for AAPL. There was downward pressure on FB shares despite its potential addition to the NASDAQ 100 index next week, which should promote further institutional purchases through rebalancing. GRPN shares surged on Friday on renewed takeover speculation even though there were no fundamental developments.


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Steve Watson
June 25, 2012
As exponentially more government and law enforcement drones take to the skies over America, new research has highlighted the fact that the unmanned vehicles are extremely vulnerable and can be relatively easily hijacked and controlled.
Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the University of Texas at Austin's Radionavigation Laboratory are warning that the drones could be "spoofed" and taken over by anyone with the right readily available equipment.
Fox News reports that Humphreys built an advanced spoofer at a cost of just $1000, and has successfully infiltrated the GPS systems of several drones. All he has to do is send a more powerful signal to the drone than it is receiving from an orbiting satellite and he can make the vehicle do anything he commands.
"In 5 or 10 years you have 30,000 drones in the airspace," Humphreys told Fox News. "Each one of these could be a potential missile used against us."
What's more, both the Department of Homeland Security and the FAA are aware of the issue, but are doing little to alleviate the problem.
Last week, Humphreys demonstrated to officials from both agencies how he could repeatedly take control of a drone and fly it where ever he liked.
The majority of drones that are being deployed in US airspace now function using unencrypted civilian GPS, leaving them wide open to attack.
"I'm worried about them crashing into other planes," Humphreys told Fox News. "I'm worried about them crashing into buildings. We could get collisions in the air and there could be loss of life, so we want to prevent this and get out in front of the problem."
"What if you could take down one of these drones delivering FedEx packages and use that as your missile? That's the same mentality the 9-11 attackers had," Humphreys said.
Last month it was reported that a mystery object, believed to be a surveillance drone almost did cause a mid air collision with with a commercial jet.
The federal government is in the process of rolling out new rules on the use of the unmanned drones, with the Federal Aviation Administration announcing procedures will "streamline" the process through which government agencies, including local law enforcement, receive licenses to operate the aircraft.
Congress recently passed legislation paving the way for what the FAA predicts will be somewhere in the region of 30,000 drones in operation in US skies by 2020.
Critics have warned that the FAA has not acted to establish any safeguards whatsoever, and that congress is not holding the agency to account.
In addition, A recently uncovered Air Force document circumvents laws and clear the way for the Pentagon to use drones to monitor the activities of Americans.
Professor Humphreys' research indicates that, in addition to the threat to privacy, the aircraft will also make the skies less safe.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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By DAVID GREEN
Morenci's school lunch prices will increase this year as the district joins hundreds of others in meeting federal requirements.
After Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, schools participating in the National School Lunch Program were forced to take a look at their food service funding in regard to federal subsidies.
Research by the U.S.D.A. found that many schools are charging less for lunches than it costs to produce the lunch.
According to the U.S.D.A. report, "Pricing paid lunches below the cost of production effectively increases federal subsidies for higher income children because federal funds intended for free and reduced price lunches are being used to help fill the gap between what a paid lunch costs and what the school receives for it."
Therefore, the report continues, children across all income levels are negatively affected by limiting the funds available to provide nutritious meals.
A funding formula results in a five cent increase for elementary school lunches to $1.80 and a dime increase for older student lunches to $2.10—the first increase in many years.
Districts will be required to gradually increase prices until reaching the national average of $2.46, with increases of no more than 10 cents a year.
District finance director Erica Metcalf noted that the district does have the option of taking revenue from another source to cover the cost difference, such as a transfer from the general fund
Families have trouble covering the cost of lunches now, said school board member Phil McCaskey.
"I don't see how we can do it," he said. "The only way you're going to get my support on this is if we do a proactive approach in the community to go out and touch base with people about the free and reduced lunch program."
The maximum that can be transferred from the general fund, Metcalf said, is $25,000, however, the district is likely to encounter increased costs from meeting other requirements in the new lunch law, Nutritional standards are also changing, along with a requirement to make drinking water to students in the cafeteria.
Increasing prices will affect about half of Morenci's students since the level of free and reduced-price lunches stands at about 50 percent.
There are probably many people who don't think they would qualify for free and reduced lunches, said superintendent Michael Osborne, because the standards are more generous than many people might think.
Pride is a big factor, McCaskey said, that prevents many families from taking advantage of the free and reduced-price program.
School board president Scott Merillat suggested contacting families when they get behind in lunch payments to make sure they're aware of the free and reduced-price program.
"The $25,000 transfer is an actual cost of the food service," noted board member Laura Spencer. "If our costs are going to increase and we're not covering that $25,000 for overhead, it would make sense that we would want to cover that."
Board members voted 4-1 to support the lunch price increase, with McCaskey in opposition. Ivy Hutchison and Gary Ries were absent.
STAFF—Two elementary teachers were recalled for the 2011-12 school year. Music teacher Keith Filipek and classroom teacher Chris Mansfield will return from layoff. Teaching assignments were not yet released for the upcoming school year as administrators continue to work through a budget deficit.
Freda Wright was hired as a full-time bus driver. She had previously worked as a substitute driver. Former classroom teacher Paula Grieder, who was laid off, was hired as Title I paraprofessional.
BIDS—Board members voted to accept a bid for milk from Prairie Farms; gasoline from Lightning Quick in Morenci; premium diesel fuel from Tri-County Fuel; and bread from Aunt Millie's.
The bids mark a change from last year for bread and milk. McCaskey voted against the change in the milk supplier, noting that the former supplier, Arps, donates milk for some school functions.
The change Prairie Farms will save the district about $4,000.
"I think we should take advantage of the savings or we'll have to cut somewhere else," Merillat said.


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There's been some good bike coverage in the New York Times.
On Saturday, Op-Ed Columnist Frank Bruni wrote about his recent ride with D.O.T. commissioner, Janette Sadik-Kahn. They talked about her critics, vision and inevitable legacy.
Bicycle Visionary by: Frank Bruni published: September 10, 2011
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School districts throughout the state received student test score data to determine areas of opportunities for their students. Hemet's results showed a few subgroups of students that are underperforming. One of the subgroups that met this criterion was African-American students. However, prior to the results being released, Hemet Unified identified the need for additional assistance and began implementing a new initiative to further support our African-American students.
At the beginning of this school year, staff created a council to better understand the support systems our African-American students need and barriers that affect their educational journey. The African-American Committee for Excellence and Success (AACES) began meeting once a month and started planning a way to form a similar committee at each of our sites. Before we provide this committee at other sites, we wanted to hear from our students and their families to further identify the support they need.
On February 12th, nearly 100 people attended the AACES kickoff meeting. Rancho Viejo Middle School Principal and creator of AACES, Jonathan Workman, provided data of African-American students within the district and asked how families and schools could work together and ensure students are successful. Throughout the meeting staff and families were able to engage in honest conversations about barriers and challenges our students are facing and provide valuable feedback as to possible solutions.
Thanks to the collaborative efforts of HUSD staff and families, and with the support of Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE), we are poised to create better and more supportive learning environments for all students! Thank you to RCOE's Chief Academic Officer Cynthia Glover-Woods and HUSD students, families, and staff for attending the event and providing valuable input to ensure our students are set up for success. As we all know, it takes a village!


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"In 2005, Cory Arcangel bought a used computer at a Salvation Army store in Buffalo, New York. Originally he was attracted to it because of its rarity: the Macintosh TV was a rather badly designed, half-hearted hybrid of a Macintosh Computer and a TV set, that performed neither of its designated functions very well and lacked any cool things that might come from the synergy. The machine was a commercial flop, only around 10,000 units were produced during a few months between 1993 and 1994."


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A9 TV; November 8th, 2011
I love all communists who believe in freedom of thought, and who are respectful and kind. In the academy, I had so many communist friends. I treasure them. I respect them because you can talk with them in the ideological sense. But if he acts improperly, if he challenges, terrorizes and sheds blood, this is cruelty. This is mercilessness. But I am in favor of freedom of thought to the end. They can advocate their ideas as they like.
It is a disgrace to silence a person who is speaking. Let him go and talk from the pulpit or on television or write whatever he likes. I support freedom of ideas right to the bitter end. All ideas, that is. People can talk about irreligion, fascism, communism and everything. But there must be no insults or disrespect. Freedom of ideas, within the bounds of propriety. Is something that is very relaxing. Science and art grow in such a climate. Pressure and the lack of liberty is a terrible thing. Let people live, think and speak as they like, so long as they do not harm anyone.
Pressure is why people become depressed and sick. There is pressure in all third world countries. It is as if most people are crazy. Art and science grow in free countries, if you notice. A free artist can produce a very fine picture or building. For example, no artists came out of communist Russia. They could not do it. Nor from Red China. There was no architecture. Show me a bit of architecture of a work of art! Let them show me just one picture. A free system is very good. It broadens people's horizons. One has to be free in art. One has to be free in the production of clothing, free in speech, free in politics. People can speak well in free politics. Freedom is vital, it is people's adrenalin. It works like adrenalin. It expands the mind. That is why people will enjoy the greatest freedom in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as). They will make the best use of the blessings of democracy. And they will be under the guarantee of secularism, insha'Allah.
A9 TV, 25 February 2011
Atheist masons believe in satan. But there are also religious masons who love and fear Allah. There is a struggle between them and atheist masons. I support the religious masons. I support those masons who believe in the existence and oneness of Allah and who love Islam. We have a due to strive against atheist masons, insha'Allah.2012-10-31 12:09:20


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Episode 1 was released english subbed a couple of days ago, and as far as I know, there's been three scanlated chapters of the manga online. I thought episode 1 was great (can't get enough of that OP!) and the manga's pretty good as well.Ryuugamine Mikado is a boy who longs for the exciting life of the big city. At the invitation of his childhood friend Masaomi, he transfers to a school in Ikebukuro. Masaomi has warned him about people he doesn't want to cross in the city: a champion fighter, an informant, and a mysterious gang called "Darazu." Nervous from Masaomi's stories, Mikado witnesses an urban legend on his first day in the city, the Headless Rider astride a black motorcycle. From then on, the existence of supernatural cases and a gang called the Yellow Turbans will rise to the surface, and Ikebukuro will pushed to the breaking point.
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Parramatta Eels Coach Ricky Stuart with players. Trimming the fat … Eels Coach Ricky Stuart with players at pre-season training.
INTEREST in Willie Tonga from English Super League premiers Leeds might help Parramatta to sign Israel Folau, with the Eels having been told to shed players to accommodate the returning AFL star under the salary cap for next season.
Despite Parramatta's release of Tonga's brother Esi and Kiwi second-rower Justin Horo to Manly earlier this week, Fairfax Media understands that the club has only $110,000 left under the salary cap.
The Eels are looking to find third-party deals for Folau, who was granted a release from his $1.5 million-per-season AFL contract two weeks ago, but NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert has ruled out allowing them to sign the 23-year-old for $110,000.
Folau wants to play for Parramatta but the only way the club can fit him under the salary cap next season is if other players leave. Sources in England have said that Leeds are keen to sign Tonga.
Rhinos boss Garry Hetherington has said the club is on the hunt for a "quality centre" from the NRL and it is understood his focus is on Tonga, who has another year to run on his contract with the Eels.
The 29-year-old former Queensland and Australian centre might consider the move if a long-term deal is offered. However, it is understood Parramatta officials will not ask any player to leave so they can accommodate Folau and hope to resolve the situation with the NRL.
Parramatta chief executive Ken Edwards and recruitment manager Peter Nolan have discussed with Schubert and NRL interim chief executive Shane Mattiske how the club could add Folau to its roster, but new coach Ricky Stuart is frustrated by the delays.
Because of Parramatta's salary cap issue, the Eels and Folau have not been able to negotiate a contract as they do not know how much the club can afford to pay him next season.
With up to 20 players off contract at the end of next season, the club does not have any problems beyond 2013 but it is struggling to finalise a deal that is acceptable to the NRL.
The case has echoes of the Greg Inglis saga two years ago after he was forced to leave Melbourne because of the club's salary cap scandal.
However, the NRL refused to register his contract with Brisbane and South Sydney also went through weeks of protracted negotiations and were forced to release centre Beau Champion after Schubert ruled third-party payments had to come under the salary cap.
At the time a disillusioned Inglis, who recently signed a $4million, five-year deal with the Rabbitohs, believed that the NRL did not want him and considered switching to AFL after meeting Essendon coach James Hird.
Complicating the Folau case is that he was on huge money from the AFL to help promote Greater Western Sydney Giants, but would not command the same value in the NRL as he has not played league for two years.
However, his signing with the Eels would still be a marketing coup for the NRL in the battle between the codes for western Sydney and has already helped Parramatta to sell memberships.
Meanwhile, Willie Mason has re-signed with Newcastle for two more seasons. The former Test forward joined Newcastle, his home-town club, earlier this year on a cut-price deal and showed enough form to secure an extension. He will be 34 by the time this deal expires.
"Willie made a wonderful contribution to the Knights from the minute he arrived, which has been well documented," coach Wayne Bennett said.
"We are all looking forward to seeing what a good pre-season can do for him as well as seeing him play with the Knights for the next two seasons."
Mason said he always expected to re-sign with the Knights.
"The deal was done earlier in the year and I am glad all the formalities have now been finalised," Mason said. "I am very excited to be a Knight for the next two years."
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Seagate, which is the world's biggest supplier of hard drives to PC and server manufacturers, will offer a complete line of flash-based products to its OEM and distribution partners. It will also work jointly with Virident on developing new flash-based storage products.
The investment is a strategic round, and Seagate will nominate someone to Virident's board of directors. Virident launched in 2006 and has raised more than $63 million in four rounds of funding. Its most recent round was a $26 million series D led by Mitsui Global Investments. Other investors include Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, Cisco Systems and Artiman Ventures.
Separately, Seagate reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of $492 million, or $1.30 a share, on $3.7 billion in revenue. The results were better than the $1.27 analysts had expected. The company also said it shipped 58 million disk-drive units in the quarter ended December 28. Seagate's shares rose 2.7 percent in after-hours trading.


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In 2010, over 900 monuments and buildings in 84 countries lit in blue on 14 November to raise awareness of diabetes and World Diabetes Day. WHO estimates that more than 346 million people worldwide have diabetes. This number is likely to more than double by 2030 without intervention. Almost 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
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The World Diabetes Day 2011 campaign marks the third year of the International Diabetes Federation's five-year focus on "Diabetes education and prevention," the theme chosen for the period 2009-2013.
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Pew Study: 2008 Electorate Most Diverse Yet
By Dan Balz
A new study by the Pew Research Center found that participation rates among African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans all rose between 2004 and 2008, leaving the share of the electorate accounted for by white voters at an all-time low of 76.3 percent.
African American women voted at higher participation rates than any other racial or ethnic group, according to the study, which was based on an analysis of Census data. The study found that 68.8 percent of eligible black women voted in the last election, an increase of 5.1 percentage points.
White women were the next highest in participation rates, followed by white men, black men, Latino women and Latino men. Asian American men and women voted ranked at the bottom in terms of participation rates.
Overall, African Americans accounted for 12.1 percent of the electorate, up from 11 percent in 2004. Black turnout increased by two million voters.
Latinos increased their share of the electorate from 6 percent to 7.4 percent between 2004 and 2008, and, like African Americans, saw their numbers grow by two million voters. The Asian American share of the electorate grew from 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent.
Twenty years ago, the presidential electorate was 84.9 percent white. It has decreased in each presidential election since then, but the sharpest decline came between 2004 and 2008.
Obama's candidacy was a factor in the higher participation rates among minorities, but population growth among minority groups also contributed to the changing composition of the electorate, according to the study, which was authored by Mark Hugo Lopez and Paul Taylor.
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The youth vote being strongly Democratic spells a long stay in the political wilderness for the GOP - and possibly even the party going the way of the Whigs...
The old GOP slogans simply don't work anymore. As long as the GOP remains dead-set against universal healthcare, adressing climate change, sticks to its jingoist attitude towards much of the world and cultivates homophobia and other forms of obscurantism, how on earth can it ever be an attractive party to the young?
Lets face it. To most young voters the GOP comes across as a political dinosaur. A mentally unbalanced one, on top of that, if considering the most visible GOP figures.
Posted by: charlesf1 | May 1, 2009 6:36 PM
Many dumb white men did not vote because they did not like either choice. Soon I hope we will have enough 3rd party candidates so we can vote out all of the republicans and democrats as they are mostly all crooked. When I say dumb I mean voter dumb, we should all pick someone from the choices we have and vote for them. Take my uncle for instance he thinks no one will go to heaven unless they are Baptist and republican {everyone else just forget it} Yes he is from Kentucky so what can I add.
Posted by: SWAMPYPD | May 1, 2009 6:25 PM
The other electorate factor missing from this article is the increase in the so-called youth vote (18-35 is the common measure of that, I think). I would be very interested in seeing that demographic folded into this analysis.
These factors all contributed greatly to Obama winning states that, through 2004, had voted "red" for years (states that had voted Republican in national elections for 30-40 years voted for Obama).
While some of this switch can be laid at Bush's feet, Republican leaders seem to insist that this is the ONLY reason for the flip, and that a reversal will occur in 2012 (if not in 2010) after they get a taste of Obama's, and the dreaded "liberal socialist agenda".
While Democratic leaders and Obama cannot take anything for granted (and most of them know it), it has become very clear over the past 3 months that Republican leaders (so far) have shown they really have no clue as to the significance of this paradigm shift in demographics.
Some of the press has referred to this, but because the comments come from the "MSM" a, and of course they are all "radical left and worship Obama", Republican leaders are not giving any credit to this possibility. They still insist their problem over past 2 election cycles was all due to Bush and to "it's not our message that's not relevent, it's how we've been delivering it".
No, it IS the message (policies), especially the weight given to social conservatives, that is irrelevent today. The demographics of the 1980's electorate no longer exist today. As long as Republican leadership ignors this fundamental shift, they are not coming back, not for a long time.
This is NOT 1993, as much as they would love to think so, and as many are clinging to right now. Note the resurgence of Newt, Dick Armey, Haly Barbour. Are you kidding?
Hey, I hope they continue along with their collective heads positioned where the sun don't shine! I'm just sayin'...
Posted by: bmckenzie46 | May 1, 2009 3:43 PM
Al Gore received 92% of the black vote in 2000. Bubba and Kerry also got over 90%.
Last I checked these are white men. Latinos and Asians are trending the same way.
The GOP only has itself to blame as it increasingly become an exclusively white southern party.
Posted by: sgtpepper23 | May 1, 2009 2:19 PM
The numbers are up in part because Micael Connell was tied up in court on election day.
Posted by: rooster54 | May 1, 2009 1:35 PM
"The GOP sure hates these numbers"
No, what we don't like is that it's OK for 97% of blacks to vote for BO and that's just fine but the mear fact that we disagree with his policies is somehow considered racist. Read these posts. We are accused of it everyday. The left is obsessed with the race issue, not the right.
Posted by: AkCoyote | May 1, 2009 10:49 AM
"The GOP sure hates these numbers"
No, what we don't like is that it's OK for 97% of blacks to vote for BO and that's just fine but the mear fact that we disagree with his policies is somehow considered racist. Read these posts. We are accused of it everyday. The left is onsessed with the race issue, not the right.
Posted by: AkCoyote | May 1, 2009 10:47 AM
Obama is expanding his base while the GOP folds up the Reagan "big tenet" in the name of "ideological purity." Guess that settles the next few elections...
Posted by: parkerfl1 | April 30, 2009 10:13 PM
The GOP sure hates these numbers
Posted by: sgtpepper23 | April 30, 2009 8:02 PM
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Immediate nicotine reduction best at cutting biomarkers of smoke exposure
The immediate reduction of cigarette nicotine content results in greater improvements in levels of smoke exposure biomarkers than gradual reduction, though withdrawal symptoms are stronger, according to a recent study.
The double-blind, randomized, parallel study included 1,250 participants, who were randomized to one of three 20-week interventions delivered after 2 weeks of baseline smoking: immediate reduction of nicotine to 0.4 mg/g tobacco (n=503; mean age 45.5±13.9 years; 46 percent female), gradual reduction to 0.4 mg/g tobacco (n=498; mean age 44.7±12.9 years; 42 percent female) or nicotine maintenance at 15.5 mg/g tobacco (control; n=249; mean age 45.0±13.4 years; 43 percent female).
After 20 weeks, participants in the immediate vs gradual reduction group had significantly lower mean breath carbon monoxide levels (16.17 vs 20.06 ppm; adjusted mean difference [MD], –4.06 ppm; 95 percent CI, –4.89 to –3.23; p<0.0055). [JAMA 2018;329:880-891]
The same was true for other smoke exposure biomarkers: urine 3-hydroxypropylmercapturic acid (3-HPMA; adjusted ratio of geometric means [RGM], 0.83; 0.77–0.88; p<0.0055) and urine phenanthrene tetraol (Phe-T; adjusted RGM, 0.88; 0.83–0.93; p<0.0055).
The 20-week intervention also resulted in significant reductions relative to the control group (CO: adjusted MR, –3.38; –4.40 to –2.36; p<0.0055; 3-HPMA: adjusted RGM, 0.81; 0.75–0.88; p<0.0055; PheT: adjusted RGM, 0.86; 081–0.92; p<0.0055). No significant differences were observed between the control and gradual reduction groups.
Immediate reduction of cigarette nicotine also had a significant effect on smoking habits. Relative to the gradual reduction (adjusted MD, –5.18; –5.97 to –4.39; p<0.00057) and control (adjusted MD, –5.47; –6.44 to –4.50; p<0.00057) groups, significantly less cigarettes per day were recorded for the immediate reduction group.
Participants who received the immediate reduction intervention likewise demonstrated significantly lower nicotine dependence, as measured by the Fagerström Test (adjusted MD, –0.99; –1.75 to –1.12; p<0.00057), and significantly more cigarette-free days (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 3.57; 2.34–5.43; p<0.00057) compared with the gradual reduction intervention.
"[T]he results demonstrated that with immediate nicotine reduction, the toxicant exposure reduction or potential health benefits could be realized sooner than gradual nicotine reduction," researchers explained.
"Although the actual reduction in mortality and morbidity as a result of the reduced cumulative exposure in the immediate compared with the gradual nicotine reduction group is unknown, dose-response relationships have been observed between CPD and level of smoke exposure with risk for tobacco-related disease," they added.
However, researchers noted that the immediate reduction in cigarette nicotine was not without its drawbacks. For instance, withdrawal symptoms, measured using the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale, were stronger for 1 week in the immediate vs gradual reduction groups (adjusted MD, 2.21; 1.62–2.79; p<0.00057).
Moreover, participants who received the immediate reduction intervention were significantly less compliant than the gradual reduction group, using more nonstudy cigarettes (adjusted MD, 1.58; 1.12–2.04; p<0.00057).
"Compared with gradual nicotine reduction, immediate reduction resulted in more dropouts and use of nonstudy cigarettes, possibly reflecting an attempt to reduce withdrawal symptoms and the lack of satisfaction from cigarettes," researchers said, suggesting that smokers would tend to seek out alternative nicotine sources.
"The availability of alternative regulated sources of nicotine that have been proven to be less harmful, along with access to smoking cessation treatments through physicians and other sources and a strong postmarketing surveillance system, would likely minimize demand for illicit cigarettes," they added.


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Many of us like to please others our supervisor, our spouse, our children but how many of us would take that as far as confessing to a serious crime that we did not commit?
In a study completed by the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in 2008, a researcher discovered 53 cases of serious felonies to which people with intellectual disabilities confessed and were later legally exonerated. These exonerations were based on significant evidence such as DNA tests or eventual confessions by the real perpetrators. In some cases, the crimes to which the suspects confessed never even occurred. In many cases, the person with a disability already had served significant jail time before being exonerated.
The examples, spanning years from 1924 to 2007, came from across the United States (no cases from Colorado were included in the study.) They include such cases as a 2002 case in Georgia, in which a man with intellectual disabilities confessed to being present at the murder of a 15-year-old girl, even though the man was with his family in Brazil for the three days before and eight days after the murder.
A 1979 case in Florida recorded a man with an IQ of 56 who confessed to the murders of six women. After the man spent 22 years in prison, he was released when DNA evidence excluded him from all six of the murders. In a 1985 case in New Jersey, a man with an IQ of 57 confessed to beating his girlfriend to death with a stick. The woman died from alcohol poisoning.
What was clear from all 53 cases was that people with intellectual disabilities can be unduly susceptible to interrogation techniques used by some law-enforcement agencies. Intellectual disabilities can affect a persons ability to perceive a situation correctly and affects the ability to make good judgments.
People with intellectual disabilities frequently strive to please others, especially those in authority. Often, this is a survival technique learned by a person who is dependent on others to meet his or her basic needs. In this study, those characteristics led to wrongful convictions. In other situations, it can make a person with a disability vulnerable to abuse or exploitation.
As a community, we can address this problem. La Plata County already has led the way in preventing wrongful convictions of people with disabilities by instituting a Crisis Intervention Team training for law enforcement and first responders in our area. The CIT training offers tools for working with people with mental illness and other disabilities. Since CIT was implemented in 2003, 230 law-enforcement officers and community members have graduated from the program.
La Plata County also has an active Adult Protection Team, programs like Alternative Horizons and the Violence Prevention Coalition to reduce violence, and programs to support and advocate for people with disabilities such as Community Connections and Axis Health Systems. By supporting these programs and others like them, we help make La Plata County a safer place for everyone.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood on Thursday filed a federal challenge to a new Indiana law requiring clinics that administer the so-called abortion pill to have full surgical facilities, a requirement it says would halt abortion services at a central Indiana clinic.
Under the law, Planned Parenthood would have to upgrade its clinic in Lafayette, Indiana, to surgical standards or stop administering RU-486, commonly called the abortion pill, it said in a lawsuit filed in Indianapolis federal court.
Imposing surgical facility requirements on clinics where no surgery is performed "is not only unreasonable, it is utterly irrational ...," Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky said in the lawsuit, which seeks a federal court injunction.
Legislators supporting the law, which took effect July 1, have said it would protect women's health. It requires clinics providing non-surgical abortions to have separate procedure, recovery and scrub rooms like surgical centers starting January 1.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said in a statement on Thursday that, "We look forward to respectfully asserting the state's case" in defending the constitutionality of the law.
Planned Parenthood operates four of the 10 clinics that provide abortions in Indiana. Three Planned Parenthood clinics perform surgical abortions and administer the abortion pill at up to nine weeks of pregnancy. The Lafayette clinic offers only the abortion pill at up to nine weeks of pregnancy.
The Lafayette clinic provided 54 non-surgical abortions in the 12 months ended July 1, and other medication, primarily contraception, more than 10,000 times, the lawsuit said.
If the Lafayette clinic stops providing non-surgical abortions, the closest clinics are 60 miles away in Indianapolis or 85 miles away in Merrillville, Planned Parenthood said, adding that the Lafayette clinic would continue to provide health services.
Planned Parenthood applied on July 15 with Indiana state health officials for a license and a waiver of the requirements.
The Indiana law exempts physician's offices from the requirements as long as surgical procedures performed there are not primarily surgical abortions and abortion-inducing drugs are not the primarily prescribed drugs.
The requirements violate a woman's constitutional right to privacy, equal protection and are "arbitrary and irrational" in violation of a woman's right to due process, the lawsuit said.
The two-pill abortion medication called RU-486 has been legally available in the United States since 2000. By 2008 it accounted for about one-fourth of U.S. abortions performed before nine weeks of gestation, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports the right to abortion.
As approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the drugs are dispensed by prescription directly from a physician. They are not available in pharmacies.
(This story has been corrected to fix spelling of Merrillville in paragraph eight)
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